Michigan
Bellarmine
Wolverines to Host Bellarmine in Sunday Home Opener at Ocker Field
9/3/2025 12:34:00 PM | Field Hockey
Promotions
• Poster Giveaway & Autographs -- The first 250 fans will receive a free Michigan Field Hockey "Brady Bunch" poster. Postgame autographs with Team 53 will be available to all fans.
• Wolverine Kid's Club Day -- All Wolverine Kids Club members are invited to attend this game and will earn bonus points.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 7-ranked University of Michigan field hockey team (1-1) returns to Phyllis Ocker Field this weekend to kick off the home portion of its 2025 schedule. The Wolverines will host Bellarmine (0-2) for the first-ever meeting between the programs at 1 p.m. on Sunday (Sept. 7). Admission is free, and the game will be streamed live on B1G+.
Notes
• Michigan owns an impressive 217-66 record at its home facility since its 1995 inauguration, including a 72-19 mark over the last 10 seasons. The Wolverines went 7-3 at Ocker Field last season, outscoring opponents 34-11 with four shutouts. In home openers at Ocker Field, U-M is 20-10.
• The Wolverines split their two games in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge last weekend (Aug. 29-31) in Iowa City, Iowa, dropping their contest to No. 2 North Carolina, 3-0, before bouncing back with a 2-1 comeback win against No. 20 Wake Forest. Michigan has split its ACC/Big Ten games in three of the last four seasons, while dropping both in 2023 and winning both in 2021.
• Michigan's win over Wake Forest marked the first in the tenure of new head coach Kristi Gannon Fisher. The seventh head coach in UMFH program history, Gannon Fisher moved to the helm last spring after spending nine total seasons, including the previous six straight, as an assistant under legendary head coach Marcia Pankratz. A key member of the Wolverines' 2001 NCAA championship team, Gannon Fisher was a two-time First Team All-American and the 2003 Big Ten Conference Athlete of the Year during her collegiate career (2000-03). She is slated to be inducted into the Michigan Athletics Hall of Honor this fall, joining her older sister Kelli Gannon (1997-2000).
• Graduate student Abby Tamer netted the game-winning goal against Wake Forest at the 59:33 mark -- with just 27 seconds left in regulation -- on a tip off a hard pass from freshman Maxine Rogge near the Wake 25. Tamer, who led U-M in scoring last season with 12 goals, now has seven game-winners in her career. With the assist, Rogge earned her first collegiate point.
• Junior Juliette Manzur posted the Wolverines' first goal of the season with the game-tying score early in the fourth quarter (47:14) against Wake Forest. It is the third consecutive year that Manzur has recorded Michigan's first goal of the season, adding to her markers against North Carolina as both a freshman (2023) and sophomore (2024).
• Five Wolverine newcomers made their collegiate debuts last weekend: Rogge, who started both games in the midfield, as well as fellow freshmen Grace Hunter, Beatrice Ottsen, Lexi Patterson and Manouk Saal. Hunter, Patterson and Saal all appeared in both games.
• Bellarmine is 0-2 on the season after its opening weekend at home, played at the University of Louisville's Trager Stadium. The Knights fell to Saint Francis, 4-0, last Friday (Aug. 29) and UC Davis, 2-1, on Sunday (Aug. 31). Anouk Richters owns Bellarmine's lone goal so far this season, while goalkeeper Kailey Workman carries a 3.00 goals-against average and .793 save percentage. Sunday will mark the first-ever meeting between Michigan and Bellarmine.
• Michigan returned 21 players from last season's squad, including six who earned double-digit starts in 2024. The Wolverines bring back their leading scorer in graduate student Tamer, a 2024 First Team All-American who posted 12 goals and 14 assists, but graduated the next five point leaders. U-M returns 43.9 percent (29 of 66) of its goal production from last year.
• U-M also graduated defensive stalwart Pilar Oliveros, a three-year starter at center back, but returns the rest of its backfield. Graduate student Caylie McMahon and sophomore Hala Silverstein have split starts in goal each of the past two seasons. Graduate student Claire Taylor and sophomore Anjolie Norton also started all -- or nearly all -- of last season at back, contributing to a defensive unit that allowed just 1.10 goals and 7.2 shots per game.
